SALVADOR DALI (Spanish, 1904-1989)
TITLE: The Marriage of Romeo & Juliet by Death
Gouache, watercolor and felt pen on paper
15 x 11 in. (38 x 27.8 cm.)
Signed Dali lower left
Accompanied by an original certification of authenticity from Nicolas and Oliver Descharnes, Ref: D5805, 14 April 2017.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Miami
This gouache on paper is the original artwork to Salvador Dalí’s 1975 set of illustrations for Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Printed in 1975 by Rizzoli and Rizzoli, each series consisted of 10 off-set lithographs on heavy paper with 99 pages of bound text contained in a red/burgundy silk slipcase with the lithographs signed in the plate. A total of 999 books were published. This gouache is the last of the ten works originally created.
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